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In the event of the Agent-General having, before you receive this letter, procured funds, and having wired for and received by wire a bank order for some service named in the requisition accompanying this letter, you will alter the amount named in the enclosed order, diminishing it by the amount so sent by wire; and the enclosed letter to the bank will authorize it to accept such alteration. Should, however, the order sent by wire, if any, be for some service not mentioned in the requisition now sent, the enclosed order will be issued unaltered so soon as there are funds to cover it. The telegram which you will send on issuing the order, will be simply the amount for which you have issued it (thus, £180,000), by which it will be understood that that amount at least has been paid into the Public Account, and the order issued for the same. I have, &c, James Edwaed FitzGeeald, Henry Hartwright, Esq. Controller and Auditor-General.

Enclosure No. 2 in No. 9. London Account, 17th June to 31st October, 1879.

Interest and Sinking Fund, payable— £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. June 30 ... ... ... 15,615 0 0 July 1 ... ... ... 3,501 0 0 July 15 ... ... ... 155,136 10 0 August 1 ... ... ... 135,000 0 0 September 1 85,777 10 0 September 15 ... ... 8,060 0 0 October 1 ... ... ... 3,198 0 0 October 15... ... ... 109,246 10 0 515,534 10 0 Orders for transfer to Foreign Imprest Account not exercised— No. 8, November 16 ... 73,593 0 0 „ 13, March 1 ... ... 70,444 0 0 „ 15, April 26 ... ... 51,200 0 0 „ 17, May 23 ... ... 11,952 15 2 „ 18, June 21 ... ... 13,000 0 0 „ 1, July 28 ... ... 5,000 0 0 „ 2, July 29 ... ... 10,000 0 0 „ 3, August 16 ... ... 31,774 16 11 „ 4, August 16 ... ... 204,220 0 0 471,184 12 1 Total chargeable on tie New Zealand Public Account... — 986,719 2 1 Balance in Bank of New Zealand, London, on June 17, 1879 ... ... ... ... ... 37,308 13 7 Add bank drafts, to mature— July 16, 1879 ... ... 182,831 0 0 August 15, 1879 ... ... 135,000 0 0 . 317,831 0 0 Balance of £800,000 debentures of Immigration and Public Works Loan, guaranteed ... ... 100,000 0 0 455,139 13 7 Deficiency ... ... ... £531,579 8 6 Treasury, "Wellington, Jas. B. Hetwood, 15th August, 1879. Accountant to the Treasury.

No. 10. The Colonial Tbeasueeb to the Loan Agents. Gentlemen, — Treasury, New Zealand, Wellington, 15th August, 1879. The Government is in receipt of a telegram from the Agent-General, intimating that the " Crown Agents, if well secured by debentures created by the Loan Agents, will accept sixty days' bills, as arriving here [in London] September 30th, for £150,000, and £100,000 following three months." I have now the honor to inform you that, in pursuance of that arrangement, I have drawn on the Crown Agents for £150,000, in favour of the Managing Director of the Bank of New Zealand, London, and I have to request that, on the drafts being accepted by the Crown Agents, you will be good enough to hand over to them debentures to such an amount as may be deemed sufficient security for the acceptances in question. I have, &c, The Loan Agents for New Zealand, London, G, Geey.

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